Hamlet Act IV
Scene 1
1. What explanation does Gertrude offer for Polonius’s murder? (10)
Scene 2
2. How does Hamlet treat Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
3. Is Hamlet sane in Scene 2 or really crazy? (opinion)
Scene 3
4. What is Claudius’s attitude in Scene 3?
5. What will happen to Hamlet now? (4-46)
6. What has Claudius planned? 60-end
Scene 4
7. How does Fortinbras compare with Hamlet? What sort of character does this make
him?
8. Shakespeare gives his opinion of war in the scene with the captain and Hamlet. What
is it? (13-28)
9. What is the point of Hamlet’s soliloquy in 4.4? (31 to end)
Scene 5
10. Why has Ophelia gone crazy?
11. How is Ophelia’s madness portrayed?
12. What’s the deal with the crowd running in? (97-106)
13. What does Laertes’s anger show? How does he compare to Hamlet?
Scene 6
14. What do we learn in Scene 6 with Horatio? (The letter)
Scene 7
15. What final plans are arranged in Scene 7? (127-160)
16. What happened to Ophelia? (163, 165-182)